Staff Frontend Developer
Powered by People, Canada
Job Description
Powered by People (PBP) is looking for a curious and collaborative Staff Frontend Developer to join our growing Development team. This role requires a passion for technology and a desire for ownership in your work. You are an advocate for an amazing experience for the Makers using PBP’s website. You are not shy about championing ideas, sharing your knowledge and welcoming feedback. You enjoy working independently and collaboratively within a small team.
If you are looking for a role with real ownership and opportunities to grow to the next level we should talk!
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
- Work with the Product team and Product Designer to refine scope and to define goals and deliverables using Scrum
- Drive business expectations by assessing business problems, designing optimal solutions and driving implementation
- As a lead engineer, guide junior and senior engineers on your team and across domain teams in building scalable, high speed, distributed applications, and advocating for meeting the design and quality standards
- Contribute to all stages of development: testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation, and support product development and maintenance
- Help technical team members, product managers, and business users to brainstorm minimal viable products (MVPs) to test the validity of new ideas
- Use synchronous and asynchronous communication to help drive coordination and alignment across your teams
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent
- At least 5 years of professional experience
- Knowledge of B2C, ideally B2B ecommerce websites
- Able to easily move between designing for desktop and mobile functionality
- Working experience in Next.JS
- Well-versed in Web/Frontend technologies and frameworks like Spring MVC, Node.JS, React, Marko, HTML5, CSS3 with LESS or SASS, JavaScript, JSP, Ajax, JQuery
- Experience crafting optimized CSS with LESS or SASS
- Strong understanding of Secure, RESTful web APIs
- Good communication skills in English both written and spoken
We’ve found the above qualifications are the most common predictors for a successful Staff Frontend Developer at PBP. That said, if your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can rock the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
The majority of the Engineering team is based in Nairobi, Kenya. The wider PBP team is located across Kenya, India, Mexico, Turkey, US, UK and Canada. You will work remotely and connect mostly with teams in Nairobi, and connect with additional teams across different time zones.
Benefits
PBP is a social enterprise startup whose mission and values of creativity, responsibility, innovation, diversity, transparency and sustainability are a force for good. Join a passionate global, remote-first team using technology to connect small batch makers and independent brands with buyers and conscious consumers. We provide meaningful, cross-functional and collaborative work, support establishing your home desk, co-working space in our hubs, and opportunities to travel. We are reimagining a world Powered by People. Come join us.